Title : Igbo Landing
Medium : oil on canvas
Size : 4ft by 8ft
Based on a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of their slave ship and refused to submit to slavery in the United States. The event’s moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore and literary history.
Recreating this story for me was an opportunity to share in the brave and heroic actions of great men, who knew that life is a gift, and the expression of this gift is in the freedom to choose even if that choice will cost life itself.
